Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.

Excuse me? I'm alive too.

Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable.

Excuses are the words coming from the loser in you.

Excuse me: I am homeless. I am gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

Excuses excuse us from fulfilling our potential.

Excuse me, but I’ve been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never once gone after a target and failed. Ever. (Shahara) Yeah, but you’ve never been chased before. It’s a lot harder to be the prey than it is to be the predator. (Syn)

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

Excuse me while I go bleach my face.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Excuse me, scary people. (Alix)

Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.

Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Hustle ... Your excuses are someone else's motivation.

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

If [Eva Braun] was crying upstairs, it wouldn't be long before [Adolf] Hitler would quietly excuse himself and then make things right. What he said to her, I don't know. Whether he said the words "I'm sorry," I don't know. But he was a charmer, he knew how to stop a woman from crying.